Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

and if you bothered to listen—provides for datacasting that would assist more growers to become aware of where the dollars are, that might help. Please keep giving us the usually unsubstantiated information about individual workers, considering only 11,000 change their jobs every week in Australia, instead of looking at, for instance, the rights of people in other areas. That is your choice as the opposition.

I have made the point that I hope that this legislation will provide an adequate opportunity for datacasting and also the information that people require, not another series of Neighbours or Down Our Street or whatever else. That is an important thing.

I was interested to hear the member for Kingsford Smith say—I think in a broader reference—that he was concerned about the jobs of journalists if changes coming up in other legislation were accepted. Everyone worries about media proprietors dictating what journalists should write. I am not sure that that happens. I think journalists have significant control over the products we hear over the airwaves or we see in print journalism. The possibility of who will own a newspaper is open slather, except if you own a television station. Those sorts of matters are of importance. But I always thought that the best way for a journalist to keep their job—

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